federal law. reporter: the mar-a-lago documents only the latest revelation about recordkeeping. cnn has reported trump repeatedly ripped up documents and staff in the white house residence where the president lived, you know, were discovering that the toilets were clogged and when engineers went in to go see what was happening, there were clumped up wads of paper, you know, apparently notes or documents. reporter: former white house national security adviser h.r. mcmaster told cnn that when he was in the white house, his staff had a foolproof system for their own recordkeeping. the staff is running it well, everything that goes in to the oval office is logged in, everything the president sees should be logged in. i can t speak about what happened after i left. the justice department has not said if it is investigating this. we do want to note that president trump has denied flushing papers in the toilet. i spoke to a source about all of this just recently who tells me
kind of come to expect there are no consequences for this bad, arguably, potentially criminal behavior says, what the heck? there are no ramifications? in the what the heck category, where are we if we have to try and criminally prosecute an ex-president for this kind of behavior. something has gone badly off the rails if we let someone get to that position of power and have to police whether or not they re flushing papers down the toilet. one step back. this comes amid a flurry of new information. washington post reporting rudy giuliani at one point between the election and january 6th went to mitch i to ask a county prosecutor to turn over voting machines, right? we can talk about different patterns of things. this consistent effort to do things to overturn the election. there s yes, a consistent habit of rudy giuliani breaking
talking about trying to break the law, the man was impeached twice. he did a lot of stuff that was hidden, and it didn t involve clumsy actions like ripping up paper and flushing it down the toilet. looking at prrt to investigate, there are several episodes that merit consideration about whether longs are strong enough and ought to be strengthened. this may very well be another one. nixon had the plumbers, right? nixon almost was impeached for the plumbers. trump always liked nixon. he really needed a plumber. i think, though let s look at this. you have the ceo of a major corporation under investigation or being looked at and they re caught flushing papers down the toilet. what happens to them? i think any reasonable just sort of normal person looking at this who hasn t covered every in and out of this where we just have